| A slim 19th Century French cylinder with digital hour indication in a gold and enamel case. Keywind gilt Lepine calibre movement with suspended going barrel. Plain cock with blue steel regulator. Plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel.
Engine turned silver dial with a small circular aperture revealing the hour which changes instantaneously as the minute hand passes sixty. Subsidiary seconds within the minute chapter, gold hands. Decorative gold and fully restored champleve polychrome enamel case, the front cover with a small circular aperture for the digital hour and a larger aperture for the minutes. The back of the case decorated with turquoise enamel crescents. Wound and set
through the signed gold cuvette.
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